Super-invasive whitefly works with plant viruses to decimate crops.

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"Scientists in China have discovered a rapidly spreading crop pest and a virus have joined forces to enhance both their invasions worldwide.
A variety of the whitefly Bemisia tabaci known as the B biotype is "a super-invasive organism," Shu-Sheng Liu, an entomologist at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, explained Wednesday.
During the past 20 years, the B whitefly has spread rapidly around the world causing hundreds of millions of dollars in crop losses. Outbreaks of the B whitefly have often been followed by pandemics of a group of plant viruses, called begomoviruses, that the whiteflies carry. " LINK